The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-20 00:00:00

ravis. The Poles now occupy all the posts of which they were in possession. PLAGUE, A. 2?..—Yesterday arrived here the Archduke Ferdinand, who , commandi the army in Bohemia and Moravia. PASSAU,'AUG. 28.—Since the departure of the Doke of Dantzic to the Imperial head-quarters, the Count de 13eautnont who has arrived- at .Munich, has resumed his,conarna4,cl of the allied troops along the' Tyrolese frontiers. The wounded soldiers, left behind by the Bavarians on their retreat, are well treated. The Tyrolese, however, have, we under stand, declared that they will detain two officers of rank as hostages for the safety of the noted Doctor _Schneider. The greater part of the Ist Bavarian division have retr ',led from the. territory of Saltzburg. General Deroi m 'his position at Rosenheim, where - ; ht defends the. .IsOgr of the Inn, The Tyrolese are making every ewer ion, by blowing up the rocks, to render the passes into their country itnpratlicable. The report of there being English Agents in the Ty rol, proceeds from there acing such an overflow of specie in that. quarte at }resent, that the sharp shooters have had prompt pay every day for the last forinigtit, whereas before they had uo pay whatever. ROTTERDAM . , SE: , r. 1 I.—Letters from Vienna state, that Napoleon left Schoenbrunn on the 31st ult. - accompanied ,by Prince Eugene, to review the different corps of she army ; but add, that he re. turiied thither on the Ist inst. in good health. AsTw ESP, SEPT. 3.—Four battalions of troops arrived. here yesterday. The roads are covered wish other corps, haVing the same destination. We had a grand parade' this morning, and the Prince of Fora, C. rvo reviewed our garrison. • One of his Aides-fde-CaMp has set otf for Vienna. A balloon is preparing to be sent up for the - purpose of reCori rH!ring the movements along the enemy's We have - the most satisfadory accounts respecting the English. . Their sick amount to 15,000. They suffer extremely from the want of fresh water ; and they dare not venture to seek for fresh provisions on this side the river. There are but-few sick among our troops, and these are not dangerously ill. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 1 1.-The following Reports 'have been received from Marshal Dunionceau, Com mander in Chief of the Dutch army in Brabant 414 Zealand SIBS—The infantry under my command arrived Rereye,terday evening at. five (at Wemeldinge), and iriamediatelv afterwards a battalion .of c hasseurs pro ceded 'to Ter Goes, whiCh the enemy had left at eight the preceding morning. To-day 'Lieutenant. General Bruno took the follovvirig position the 3d regiment of the line is at Wemeldinge, and watches the enemy's movements in Keten, and the whole line akin the Eist Scheldt betore Kallendyke; the t.)d - reginitot possesses the town of Ter Goes, and has the guard of North Beveland, with two com panieS of chasseurs ; the Ist regiMent of Chasseurs occupies Neer-Arendschurch, Nisse, and Baarland, bards the 'Sloe, and' the whole East coast of the &held! from the Sloe to Hoedkenschtirch ; the Lieu tenant. G.-ni,.ral Bruno has fortified . himself 'at Ter Goes ; the FlusSars are, to take a position in 'the dis trict of Ter Goes, and the vatole line of fore-posts is with nutnerO , ;s patrOles, whi!e the artillery shall be quartered in reserve behind Ttr Goes ; the fortress of Batbz is occupied by the Oth regiment.— `The enemy has not yet evacuated Walcheren, but every thing announces that lie will no delay abart. cloning Zealand, for lie does not work at the bat teries, and it is imagined that lie is embarking his Leavy baggage. I odd a list of the enemy's ships now in sight. • I mech. ed the same at Ter Goes, at eleven o'clock, where I spent the night. It is pos sible before night there .may be some further move :lL:at. Yesterday Force French pinnaces arrived at F,,:rt but afterwards proceeded again to Lillo. know not _ , ,vhether the French army has made a .alluveinent. „The communication with the Prince de Pante Corvu is becorne more difficult, and this is cer. ;airily the eason wity,'l have received no answer to my letter of the 4th, • . „ . " The Marshal of Holland, 15uNIONCEAU." s' At the Chapel at Ter Goes, the bth of Sept. . Two in du> A tterpoun." (11, [c fopows a 44 of the vessels observed, 4n - tot/Ming in • all to 248.) RETORT FROM MARSHAL LIUMONCEAU, 4C. Slat:---Fort Batitz was taken on the 4th, your Majesty's i n This enterprise appears to have caused the greatest astonishment to the enemy. The same evening,,l proceeded to Bergen-op-Zoom, where, I arrived with all my troops at night. Ad mirai Ptoijsch and General de Mellet, Governor of the place, gave we all the assistance in . their power, juorder to collect the vessels nece,sary for the tran spa- of the troops, with which I was :o repair to south Beveland„ We embarked on the sth, about ;loon.. On quitting the harbour, several of the yes sels.stranded ; folluWed with the remainder, and arrived at five in the e‘ening before Weinrich:igen. Tt , e enemy, who was at anchor at the distance of one and an half cannon shot, saw our movements, without making any attempt to interrupt them, and ali my troops were disembarked without any accident. Our horses could not Le disembarked till the morn ing of the (id: ; and during the night, the enemy amused himself with sending some soldiers in sloops, who fired, with nna,keiry upon our vessels, which wore prote&ed by a battalion of the 3,1 regiment of the Inc. After the disembarkation, I sent three companies of chasseurs to take pti,session• of the town of Ter Goes; and I went thither likewise wit h Major-General - Stedman, Chief of the General Staff. A' seven o'clOck we entered amid the ringing of bells,. while the Master of the Horse, and Lieutenant-Gen. Bruno, one of your Mjeaty's best Genet als, hi s troops ar„t;tid Wemeldingen. On the tith, at day-break, the General proceeded with three bat talions to Ter Goes, while two battalions were plac ed behind the Sloe. • " During the night, and at day-break, I was in formed that the hostile force which entironed me was still considerable. We saw E t 8 vessels, as well frigate; as brigs and cutters, withuw c..unting boats, which from the mist could not be couinesl, The enemy's Meet the East Scheldt was drAn up at Zerikzee, before the Keeten, and above by StaVen.: isse, while i 24 ships were moored in the West Scheldt, 'from-Borst:4.n to Borland, 'This beinslocit situaLiuti, wo were somewhat exposed; but when the enemy perceived that we were up the Sloe, eed that our riflemen were:arrived,At Ellewoweilyk; whereTe stood in great -force, bv thought himself more exposed than we were ; for, 'wring the even, ing and night, he withdrew on the one side to Flushing, and on the other behind Zierikzee, and in the Roorupot. " When our riflemen came to llewonterlyk„ the enemy who occupied that village retreated, and 'our Vultigeurs made a few prisoners. Serjeant Stnit alone took four Englishmen prisoners, so much were they confounded. " Since yesterday morning the enemy had not approached South Beveland : he occupies Walche ren, and is raising six or seven batteries, each of four pieCes, on the Sloe-bank, in order to defeud the passage. Leaving Gen. Bruno the care of watching the enemy, I yesterday pryceeded to Katz, taking with me Captain of 142,pgineers Van Ingen, a distinguished officer, whom I cannot ton strongly recommend to your Majesty. " Intelligence which arrived yesterday evening announces that the enemy is evacuating Ter Vere, M iiesty may be assured', that I shall take all possible care to obey faithfully the instructions yoga Majesty has been pleased to give me. I have, dur ing the few hours since I have been here, prepared every thin:, for carrying on my operations, lam about instantly to depart from hence. Mar§4al PU;4ONcA.V." Bergen-op-;oam, Spit. 8." AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 7.—the following are . the particulars contained in the official report conce•rn ing the passage of our army from Brabant to oouth Beveland On the 4th inst. General Heiligers, in conse quence of intelligence gained, by reconnoitring a few days before,. placed himself at the head of a com pany of Voltigeurs ,of the - ist ftegiment i of Chas sears, and a company of Carbineers, and during the ebb, availing himself •of the distance at which the English ships were, waded with his party up to their shoulders in the water, over a passage of (port tuan a:league, and of which the pail) was very narrow and full of holes, and in spite of the stream, and the holes in the water, these chasseurs succeeded in crossing, without losing a single man. What in creases the merit of this enterprise is, the necessity under which they were of undertaking it precisely at three.o'clock of the afternoon, when the ebb was at the lowest ; at which time a gloomy tempest de prived the soldiers of the sight of the island and fort. ".'he short duration of the -ebb did not allow a greater number of men to wade over ; and the army re mained on the shore for a long time, uneasy concern ing the detachment, as the continuance of the stoim did not permit them to perceive whether the fort de fended itself. `i At length, at seven in the evening, the Dutch flag was seen waving on the fort. An express was then sent to Aptwerp. The Prince, General in Chief of the French army, was informed of it at nine in the evening, and announced it at the Theatre of the city. " TheChasseurs and carbineers were received by the inhabitants of Bathz with the most lively demon strations of joy, amid the continued sliouis of Long live the King ! General Heiligers praises the intre pidity apd valour of Captaii,s Schuurman and Ta bor, as well as of the Lieutenants of Engineers Cur nabe and Wolf de Westerholt. It wa, impossible for the little corps to make great haste, surrounded by dangers; and yet obii;ed to end their naarco, in consequence bf the flow of the tide, a moment's de lay, or indecision; would have been fatal to them. " His Majesty, desirous to recognise the service rendered by these brave men, and the dangers to which they exposed themselves, without any hope of retreating, and without being terrified by the numbers of the foe, who, they knew, were on the opposite side of the river,• has rewarded them, through General Heiligers, by expressing to him his satistaLlion at their conduat. He has granted pro motion,to the before mentioned Officers, and order ed, that, without distinciion of rank, all those who were in the detachment of general kieiligers should wear on the lett side of the coat an embroidered sa bre. The soldiers and non-commissioned officers shall, during the campaign, enjoy double pay." MA;LS. Dvz —1 Gottenburgh, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWLLVE olcsocK. Consols 'THE SUN. 401.114 QULi DICM YGLiUM A:JO:AT ? LONDON, NirDNESD,4Y 4 3EPTEM4IER 180,Q. We received this morning some Spanish Papers to the '4th inst. and Portuguese to the Bth. The following are the only articles of intelligence of any importance which they contain : "Ltszors, AnG.eB.—By letters from Castelßlanco we learn that the head-quarters of his Excellency . Marshal BERESFORD had been removed from Zarza to that city, in consequence of the combination of movements with the Briii.h army under the orders of his Excellency Marshal-General WELLESLEY: • • “REAL CAROLINA, AUG. 16.—We are assured that the pretended King JOSEPH, escorted by 12,000 of his partizans, has passed through Aranjuez, in the diretlion of Madrid. Our General in Chief has this evening been to reconnoitre the most important points in these mountains. Our army is recruiting. and augmenting rapidly. Those feeble persons who could not distinguish a military retreat, opportune ly made, from a shameful flight, begin already to . discern it it error. • MARVIRA, AUG. I.—The enemy still direr a tribe fire against the Cas;le of Nlonjuich. The city continues its defence with its usual bravery apd perseverance. 1 . Aug. I.—Reinforcements and provisions have been thrown into Genoa. AUG. 4,—Gerona still continues to defend itself with the greatest bravery, LiSBON; AUG. 31.—8 y letters from the fron tiers of Alem Tijo, it appears, that his Excellency Marshal Wat.test.cy has entered that province, compelled by the excessive want of provisions which he has suffered. By accounts from 'Davos Moores, we learn that the Marquis de RoistANA, with the greater part of his army has arrived at Zamom GEBQN4, AVG. 7.—. This place continues to defend itself with the utmost bravery, although the enemy have succeeded in making themselves masters of the Rebellin. The exertions of thegarrison, and the brave peasantry who have so nobly supported the honour of the Spanish arms, are incredible." These Papers are almost entirely Ailed with Eng, lish news and articles from Germany ; they con tain likewise a Proclamation from the Mar, Buis DE ROMANA to the inhabitants of Gailicia and the army, and another to the people of Palticig by the Supreme Government-, We last night received Dutch Papers to the tath instant. They acid very little to our previous stock of information. On the state of the Nrgociation between France and- Aust;l4 they are silent, With re;ipet.l to the Tyrolese very little Is said, but suffi, cient to shew, that no etibrt of the French or their Allies had been competent to the conquest, or even thy temporary defeat of those brave a‘4l hardy mountaineers. French accounts from Spain give a statement of the defeat CO' Sir 11013ERT .WILSOtst, at' Danos, intermixed with the usual proportion of misrepre sentation. The victory over VaNEGAS 4 at Alinona, cid, is stated to have been one of the most decisive which has been Achieved since the departure of NA.) POLEON from Spain, an assertion which we may reasonably suppose to be of the same complexion as those - respecting Sir ROAE4T WILSoN, These Papers contain an account of the re-occu• pation of 13atz, after the departure of our troops, but there is very little of the tone at exultation Qr triumph. Ovate letters from Holland state, that the ern. bargo in the ports of that country had been taken off The Gazetie of last night contins a letter from Capt. Motmar, of his Majesty's sloop Bonne Cie toyenne, giving an account of the capture of the French frigate La Furieuse, one of the frigates that eacaped trorn the Saintes. The perusal of it will highly gratify our readers, for at no . period of sh e war has chore been a wore gallant achievement. Extrati of a Letter from Captain SEXTON, of the I ship Arolitevideo, from. (Quebec, dated Mount's Bay, Sept. t 6 " I have just time to inform you of my safe ar rival after a terrible passage. We were thrown on our broadside", - and lay with our lower yards in the water, but providentially righted again. Two days after the gale, picked up the crew of the Jage r .0i Shields, Capt. CAMPBELL. Two of the Jane's boys were drowned. Sept. 7th, spoke the Providence Success, Capt. SMITH ; he had lost the head of his main-mast ; and picked up the crew of the Urania, of Shields, Capt. FRENCH : he saw four or five sail after the gale with their colours in distress. Sept. 13th, spoke the Pegg , of Loudon, Capt. SMITH, with the loss of his foretop-mast." It is shocking to se; the Opposition Papers (for the weekly attacks of an unprincipled defamer are unworthy of any n .lice but cuute.upt) every day at tempting to tarnish the reputation of a hero who is not only an honour to his country, but to his age, and who at this moment is hazarding his life in the general cause of Europe, as well as of the British Empire. And yet no fault is imputed to Lord \Vat.- pprqrotg, but that, after a gloriousyViowy, he-made a prudent and skilful retreat-r,a .retreat rendered necessary by the errors, mistakes, and neglect -of people in Spain, who had promised to supply all his wants, and who, for their own sake, might have been expeoled to give him every possible: assistance. No man, who attends fairly to the state of things„ and to the conduci of Lurd W4I.LINGToN, can doubt that he has done every thin& that depended on a gallant and judicious Commander, in a cause , in.the highest degree honourable to his country and inte l resting to mankind ; and every man ought to join in reptobation of such vile attempts to traduce so dis 7 tinguished a chara&er, who has the fairest and the, fullest claims to respeet, admiration, and gratitude, and whose name will for ever .he celebrated in the ,Records of History. We are happy to state that nearly 30 sail of the homeward-bound Leeward, Island, and Jamaica fleeiS have been entered on the books of LLOYD'S, a... Laying arrived at different ports in the Channel. yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council, was lieftl at the Dike of Burlington.: house 'wkiiy , continued . sitting until halt-past rive, 1 NAVAL NEWS. Fr,n: the LONDON GAZETTE. Sept, z r 1809. Admiralty-Office, Sept. ig, Copy of a Letter from Vice. Admiral Sir John I3orlase War ren, Bart. and K. is. Commander in of his Majesty's Ships and Vesselt on the Coast of North America, to the Hon. Win. Wellesley role, dated at Halifax the 14th Au,- gust, t 839. SIR, I have the honour to enclose, for their Lordship's information, 4:e copy of a letter from Capt..Moun sey, who arrived here on the Ist instant, in La Bonne Citoyenne, with La Furieuse French frigate, her prize, having struck to the British colours, aftet an adion of Six hours and fifty Minutrs, an event which has added fresh lustre to his Majesty's arms and will, I trust, entitle. the officers and ship's corn . - puny of La Bonne Citoyenne to . their favour, I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) JOHN- B. WARREN. His Majesty's Ship Conne Citoyenne, SIR, Manioc, Aug. 't, 1809. I have the honour to acquaint you, for the inform-, atien of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiral ty, that on the 18th dai of June, having sailed from Spithead in company with his Majesty's ship Index ible, and the Quebec trade, on the ed of 'Julie in 'lat. forty-four degrees North, long. twenty-seved degrees West, I had the misfortune to lose sight of the convoy in reconnoitring.a strange eespicioui sail astern, and by tratersing between the parallels of forty-i Mee and forty-four degrees North, edging to the westward, in proportion to the distance sup posed they would sail with such wiud.s 144 order to regain the fleet ,•• had the good fortune, on the .sth, at three' P. M. in latitude tory-three degree \ J forty one minutes North, an lolig nde y-fnut West, to fall in with a French frigate its the ad of tekillg; possession of a Large English mer:ham ship, which they, shortly relinquished on our approach, and steered to to the northward water a Pecos. ' 94 ' sail- Finding they did not answer the private' 4ignal,, immediately bore up in pursuit, and, alter a chase of a hours, at 25 minutes past nine A.M. on the 6th, had the satisfaction to lay his. Majesty's sloop along' , side' • within 'pistql-shot 9,1 the enemy, who had brouglit-to to engage us. A brisk, cam-eel-m.le with rount. and grape kerne' diately commenced, end the combat continued with unabated fury, gradually closing until sixteen nutes past four,. P.M. whets our powder being D ear.* ly all expended, I letermine4 to carry her by board ing with all hands, and at the instant of laying 11 4 aboard for that purpose, ,they called out th. y had . surrendered, and struck their - ceiours to his IVlejese ty's sloop. Thus ended a con4iCt ohstinately w ens-, tained for six hours and fitly initiates, during which the enemy his l / 4 1 away more than seventy broadsides, whilst his Majesty's sloop not less Taring; discharged 129 destructive broadsides, alternately iron; the stare board and larboard sides, as circeinstaecee would permit me• to change, her position with advantage, so as to avoid the necessiiy of slackening our fire, irof4 the guns being over heated, three of which were dismounted and rendered useless early, ie the action. She proved to he La Furieuse, a Froni.th trigaie Pt, the largest class, that escaped from the Saintes the Ist of April, commanded by Captain 14e Marah,C Ker pierced. for 4s guns, but haq n g 014 twelve 42 pound cal runades and two long 24-pound" ers on the main deck, with six of smaller Calibre 40 soldiers at small arms, her tut! proportion officers„ and a complement of 200 muss, besidg s thq Colonel, two Lieutenants, and a detachment of the 66th regiment of the line; partly loaded with. su " gar and cottee, and sailed Iron) Besse Terre the 14t4 June, bound to France; is sevett yvat - s old, and sail"; very fast. Atter a hard contested action, a most arduous Oil still remained to be performed. On taking posse" sion we found the frigate in a most perilous statei t with fourteen shot-holes between wind and water* and five feet water in her hold. Her topm , Sts, anct. all her yards (except the cross-jack and spritsail) shot away, and tier lower masts su badly wounded as to render it almost impossible to prevent them from falling, with more than seventy men killed and wounded, whilst his Majesty's sloop was reduced to a mere wreck, having all her lower masts bade ly wounded in several places, as %veil as the fofe and main topmasts an.l mizen topmast shot away, nearly all toe . standing and every part of the running rigging, sails, boats, &c cut to pieces. After securing, the prisoners (the weather being very favourable dart ing the night), by the exertions of Mr. Sandell), Second Lieutenant, and Mr. Atwater, the cerp c uil ter, several of the most dangercus shot holes wet! stopped, so as to enable them to keep the ship tree but all their efforts to save her masts proved inetrec' tual, es the main and mizen masts went over•boo4 - the next day, leaving the bare for6did . st starelimrse lie indefatigable exettioos of .everywounded in three pi eces . . . officer and man in the Boene Citoye a n e in fishing-and se curing her masts ; so as to be able to take t he frigate its tow, and surmounting every other diffi cu lty, merits roY werinest praise and adinitation and . 1 feel highly gratified in reporting to their Loidetrips, that ow' thing could exceed the animated zeal and unwearied intrepidity oi the Officers, seamen, and royal mar ines whom I have the honour to command, in a contest with an enemy eppareutly of so great a superiority of force ; and I beg particula r ly to ment i o n the able assistance that I received fr om M r. S ymes , t h e first, Mr. Sandorn, the Second Lieutenent, and Mr. Wil -1 the Master, which co n tributed greatly to the success of the action; Mr. Scott, the Purser, Mr. John Black, and Mt. IVl`AtAlry, passengers, in the handsomest manner volunteered their service s , assisted at the gun s , a nd w h erever t h ey co uld rnap'" themselves most useful ; and Mr. Stewart, gcon, des4ves tweets praise for his humanity rind .great: attention to our own as well as t he wounded prisoners; indeed the patience with whit: o3 U bands have horne the extreme iatigue and privation of be - . ing constantly on deck for e 5 days and nights, d oes them infinite credit, and o lung 3 de , orges etc 5 be Thus circumstanced, I was induced to DIA° '. th best of my way 'to' (lire port: ik bete I a .rieel ' cl e the priZp on the Ist.inst. The Bonne CllQ' enn to ena reqeiring three lower' masts, top masts, Vic. to Sure ble her to proceed in the p:. 4s ciA,tion ships' orders: I tery the honour herewith to. inclose a :ist of the killed and wounded,' and I am happy to s y oei 4t